Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Free DownloadOriginally published under the pseudonym 'A. M. Barnard'
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mar our future as we will. I have chosen my lot. Recall all it may cost you to share it and be sure the price is not too high a one. Remember I am poor, you the possessor of one princely fortune, the sole heir to another."
"The knowledge of this burdened me before; now I glory in it because I have the more for you."
"Remember, I am older than yourself, and may early lose the beauty you love so well, leaving an old wife to burden your youth."
"What are a few years to me? Women like you grow lovelier with age, and you shall have a strong young husband to lean on all your life."
"Remember, I am not of your faith, and the priests will shut me out from your heaven."
"Let them prate as they will. Where you go I will go; Santa Paula shall be my madonna!"
"Remember, I am a deserted woman, and in the world we are going to my name may become the sport of that man's cruel tongue. Could you bear that patiently; and curb your fiery pride if I desired it?"
"Anything for you
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A very unsatisfying and melodramatic story about a woman's efforts at vengeance against a lover who deserted her to marry for money. It's only "horror" in a psychological sense.
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After being thrown over by her lover Pauline marries a friend who's in love with her and sets out to revenge herself on her ex and it ends in a way that she couldn't foresee. A short story that is a good read.
08/26/2007
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FEATURED AUTHOR - Alice K. Boatwright is the author of the Ellie Kent mysteries, which debuted with Under an English Heaven, winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize for Best Mystery. The series continues with What Child Is This? and In the Life Ever After. Alice has also published other fiction, including Collateral Damage, three linked novellas about the Vietnam War era; Sea, Sky, Islands, a chapbook of stories set in Washington’s San Juan Islands; and Mrs. Potts Finds Thanksgiving, a holiday parable… Read more